Journal of the American Chemical Society

Catalytic reduction of alpha-diketones and their derivatives

JS Buck, SS Jenkins

Index: Buck; Jenkins Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1929 , vol. 51, p. 2165

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Citation Number: 46

Abstract

In order to obtain certain derivatives of a-diketones the authors investigated the catalytic reduction of benzils. The usual methods given in the literature are difficult and give poor yields. Five benzils were selected as starting materials: benzil made by the oxidation of benzoin with nitricacid; 2 anisil derived from anisoin after the method of BO~ ler;~ piperil made from piperoin by oxidation with Fehling's solution; 4 veratril, obtained by oxidizing ...